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Let’s go back in time to present the 20 most shocking banned album covers of all time.

4) Blind Faith – Blind Faith (1969)

Featuring Traffic’s Steve Winwood, Family’s Ric Grech and Cream’s Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, Blind Faith are widely considered to be one of rock’s first super-groups. There’s less agreement over whether the British version of their debut album—featuring a topless pubescent girl (Baker’s daughter, according to some sources) holding a vaguely phallic airplane—was in good taste. The nays won out at the time, and the debut was repackaged in U.S. with the bland, but shopper-friendly, band photo.

5) Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet (1986)

Bon Jovi’s third album, Slippery When Wet, was so popular that it secured the band’s position as one of the most successful hair metal acts of the Eighties. What you may not know is that the wet, black abstract theme of the final cover was second choice. The first, rejected option was a buxom woman whose attributes were nearly bursting out of her Slippery When Wet T-shirt.

6) Bow Wow Wow – See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy! (1981)

Bow Wow Wow, the English no-wave band put together by Sex Pistols’ Svengali Malcolm McLaren, featured teenage frontwoman Annabella Lwin. Controversy arose when, for their 1981 album See Jungle!, the then-15-year-old Lwin was posed as the nude woman in a recreation of Manet’s famous painting The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe).

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